Exploring the City

The laundry post didn't really lend itself well to pictures, so I thought I would make up for that in this one!

Here's the street that our current temporary apartment (until tomorrow) is on:  Calle Atocha.

Today we:
- Put the deposit down on our new apartment!  Two weeks of renovations and we'll be in!
- Went to the airport and bought tickets to Malaga.  It felt a little Amazing Race-ish to be buying plane tickets at an airport in a foreign language.  The Malaga trip is required for us to apply for residency.
- Went out exploring on our own, so I decided to take you on a little tour.  Excited? :)

This is a random plaza I found while kinda lost on some random streets.  Nothing is in a grid here, so it feels a little like you're following cow trails.

Then I walked down Calle Mayor to the palace, which has a botanical garden on the north side.

After walking through the garden, I made my way to the Plaza de España.  My feet hurt at that point, so I took a few pictures of the Don Quixote statue and the fountain.  Then I sat down and wrote in my journal for a while.

I took the metro back to the Plaza Mayor area to met up with the team, and we went out together for some lovely Spanish treats!  Always my favorite part :).

And then we called it a night!  Hope you enjoyed the little tour :).  And now I must go pack so we can move to our next temporary apartment bright and early tomorrow morning.

Please pray for our backs and our attitudes - hoping for hilarity during the process of carting our tons of luggage across Madrid :).